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Thursday, January 30, 2014

I first heard this on the radio some years back, and if you've listened to it and know the kind of stuff i like, you can no doubt imagine it made quite an impact on me. Sheezus. The DJ announced it as "slide her under the door" by moses longpiece, and that he was playing it off the famed "wavy gravy" compilation LP. I rushed out and bought Wavy Gravy and enjoyed it muchly, but always wondered why I couldn't find ANYTHING about this Moses Longpiece fellow...

Of course, as it turns out, there is no Moses Longpiece, that was just a phoney name the compiler had made up for this record. Eventually I discovered it was really "The Big Tragedy" by Johnny Lance, although i doubt if there was ever really an artist named Johnny Lance either, probably just a made up name for this 45. It was written by Jody Reynolds, who cut classics like "Fire Of Love" (as covered by The Gun Club) and "Endless Sleep" on Demon and Al Casey, who twanged out a million twangy guitar lines on a million records as part of the almighty Wrecking Crew. Al's low, deep twanging on this one one is just the most....

If you haven't been to Dane Certificate's Magic tricks, Gags & Theatre, well, brother, sisters, you just gotta come check it out. It's a funny little hole in the wall place you get into from an alley behind Sydney Road in Coburg, where Dane performs his weird magic show and has other magicians come and perform, and they also sell fake vomit and dog poo and whoopee cusions and all kinds of magic and gag accesories. And they have a bar there and a great old school popcorn machine that Dane makes chilli popcorn in when they show movies. Cause they show movies there too. And sometimes they have bands play there too, and one of those sometimes is THIS SATURDAY NIGHT.

At 9pm is GATOR QUEEN DUO, with Matilda Bree Robertson on accordian and scratchy cigarette vocals and her recently immigrated mexican / hawaiian / new orleansian beau J Goody Goodman on boss guitar and good hair. They play Zydeco and Louisiana R'n'B and things like that...

At 10pm is LOVERS OF THE BLACK BIRD, with Monty Montan on glockenspiel and vocals and Broseph J Foley on guitar and vocals. They play amazing dark twin-peaksy stuff with lots of sturm and drang.

At 11pm is Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ, with Richie Twelfiftee and Eugene L Holcombe and Genevieve Callaghan and the whole gang playing rock n roll songs about whippets and doo-wop songs about sexy french teenage boys and bossa nova songs about sex crazy cops and other type of songs about other stuff too. Special guest Carolyn Hawkins from Chook Race sitting in on drums!

And of course Dane Certificate himself will be working the crowd and performing great feats of magic between the acts.

Hmmmm, I don't quite know at this stage what i'm going to play, but if thing go to plan Kimbo of City Slang fame will be coming in to play a few guest selections. Of course I don't know what they will be either, but you can bet they'll be good!

IN THE WORLD

Thurs the 30th i'll be doing my usual gigs at The Sporting Club from 7 till 10 and then YahYahs from 12 till 3

Sat Feb 1st Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ playing at Dane Certificates magic theatre in Coburg with Lovers Of the Black Bird, Gator Queen Duo and feats of magic from Dane himself

Then later on Sat feb 1st i'll be DJ'ing at yahyahs from midnight till 5am

Thurs the 6th of Feb i'll be doing my usual gigs at The Sporting Club from 7 till 10 and then YahYahs from 12 till 3

And Sat the 8th will be the very last SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY. We'll be getting a whole bunch of the regular saturday night fish fry guest DJ's to come down, and i'm promised the magicla unicorn pork will be back for one last time!

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

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SONG POEMS:
GENE MARSHALL - ALL YOU NEED IS A FERTILE MIND
UNKNOWN SINGERS - PINCH ME
UNKNOWN SINGER - MY DADDY HE DIED IN 1969

Friday, January 24, 2014

Melbourne's only slow dance party, SLOW GRIND FEVER, grinds on into the new year. We make the room as dark and smoky as possible, we play the slowest, swingingest, spookiest, sweetest old records we can find, and the people slow grind on into the wee hours. It's a real nice time.

A swathe of slow grinders, probably something off this funny Spanish guitar opera type record I bought with a lady holding a poodle, some italian twist, and possibly something from the GREASE 2 soundtrack!

IN THE WORLD

Thurs the 23rd i'll be doing my usual gigs at The Sporting Club from 7 till 10 and then YahYahs from 12 till 3

And Sat The 25th is the first SLOW GRIND FEVER of the year, upstairs at the tote. Looking forward to that one, oh yes...

Thurs the 30th i'll be doing my usual gigs at The Sporting Club from 7 till 10 and then YahYahs from 12 till 3

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Have a posted this already? I don't know. it's too hot. Anyway, since i discovered this thing a few months back I've been singing it every day. the lyrics are just pure genius. Rhyming progaganda with meander. And calling the guy "a most revolting character". I take my hat off to you, Weinman and Dorney...

LYRICS/TRANSCRIPTION:
Get That Communist, Joe: The Kavaliers [1954]

Joe, come here a minute
I get a red hot tip for you, Joe

See that guy with the red suspenders
Driving that car with the bright red fenders
I know he's one of those heavy spenders
Get that Communist Joe

He's fillin' my gal with propaganda
And I'm scared she will meander
Don't want to take a chance that he'll land her
Get that Communist Joe

He's a most revolting character
And the fellas hate him so
But with the girls this character
Is a Comrade Romeo

Since my love he's sabotaging
And the law he has been dodging
Give him what he deserves, jailhouse lodging
Get that Communist Joe (Get that Shmo, Joe)

A whole lotta country i reckon! Hilbilly, rockabilly, garagabilly, swampabilly, all those billys and more billys. And some other stuff too of course...

IN THE WORLD

thursday the 16th i'm at THE SPORTING CLUB in brunswick from 7-10Then at Cherry for SOUL IN THE BASEMENT from 1am till close (probably 4 or 5)Saturday night I'll be DJ'ing at Mesa Verde (fancy mexican restaurant and bar in curtin house) from 9 till 1, then at YahYahs from 2 till 5am

Mon the 20th me and a bunch of others will be hosting the dance contest segement of NYC DJ Jonathon Toubin's SOUL CLAP AND DANCE OFF party at The Copacabana. Empat Lima and The Harpoons are playing too, should be a heap of fun!

Thurs the 23rd i'll be doing my usual gigs at The Sporting Club from 7 till 10 and then YahYahs from 12 till 3

Fri the 24th I'll be playing funkedy funky funk type records at Catfish (the joint that used to be Gertrudes Brown Couch) from 9 till 11

And Sat The 25th is the first SLOW GRIND FEVER of the year, upstairs at the tote. Looking forward to that one, oh yes...

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

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About Me

Radio Guy, Song and Dance Man, General Enthusiast--------
I do a radio show called "Stone Love", 5-7pm every Friday on 106.7PBSFM beaming out of Melbourne, Australia.
Tune in on the web via
www.pbsfm.org.au/stonelove
I sing and dance with a group called Richie1250 & the Brides of Christ, hear that at
http://bridesofchrist.bandcamp.com/
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